Last month, members of Just Stop Oil, devoted to “climate activism” — a way of coping with weather that goes way beyond using shelter, culverts, coats and umbrellas — were arrested for an unsolicited paint job.
They spray-painted Stonehenge.
The group says that mankind is doomed unless we stop using fossil fuels. Not instantly! That would be crazy. By 2030.
According to a Just Stop Oil spokesman, “Continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions.” But if we stop, the climate will spare us.
Their website says that fossil fuels are right now “killing millions around the world.” (No mention of any lives saved by, for example, fossil-fuel-provided heat in wintertime.)
Worse is to come. The contours of apocalypse are elaborated on a helpful /genocide/ page of the site. “Scientists warn of untold suffering and death, of the collapse of whole nations, and the eradication by manmade global heating of entire peoples and cultures.”
I hope I need not stress that not all “scientists” have received this fact-free revelation.
What will cause the mass slaughter? More weather, sometimes extreme weather? The kind of thing that we use fossil fuels to cope with and protect ourselves from? And for which, barring much wider development and acceptance of nuclear power than we are likely to see any decade soon, there is no reliable substitute?
You can wash the paint off Stonehenge. Bringing irrational fantasists to reason is a much tougher job.
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4 replies on “Spray-Painting Stonehenge”
Regardless of what one makes of the theory of anthropogenic global climate change, the brutal truth is that, even if somehow other nations just stopped using oil and other fossil fuels, those in command of China and Russia would have no real incentives to stop doing so.
(Moreover, Germany is pretending to convert to hydrogen-based energy generation, but if one pulls back the curtain one sees that they are building plants that can be powered by burning either hydrogen or methane, with no prospects for having the hydrogen to burn, and hence are actually transitioning to greater use of methane.)
As to Just Stop Oil, the proposition is implausible that they don’t recognize that their various actions alienate people, rather than persuade them to seek reduced use of fossil fuels. (And defacing the Great Wall or throwing egg-drop soup on 千里江山圖卷 would certainly not effect any reduction.) I infer that the participants are yet more vandals who have found yet another excuse.
You left out India.
Fair enough. India will indeed increasingly consume fossil fuels on an enormous scale.
Hucksters have been enriching themselves at the expense of the gullible even prior to any recorded history. It’s no different today with the “Man Made Climate Change” scam.